1825 - 1867: [Circus and zoo]. Small archive concerning CARL and WILLY HAGENB

74/1825 Circus and zoo Small archive concerning CARL and WILLY HAGENBECK

74/1825 [Circus and zoo]. Small archive concerning CARL and WILLY HAGENBECK, comprising: CARL HAGENBECK'S TIERPARK STELLINGEN. Ein Rückblick (n.pl., n.d. (Hamb., ±1910), photogr. plates, orig. cordbound wr., obl. 8vo); a portrait of Willy Hagenbeck (drawing, crayon, 45x31 cm., signed "W. Thö[?] 1954") and 30 picture postcards and orig. (press) photographs concerning Willy Hagenbeck and his circus.

= Carl Hagenbeck (1844-1913), son of a fishmonger, was a trader in exotic animals for zoos and circuses. He opened his own zoo in Hamburg-Stellingen in 1907. His nephew Willy Hagenbeck (1884-1965) founded his eponymous circus in Hamburg in 1914.

WITH: Hagenbeck, J. Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Ceylon. Erlebnisse und Abenteuer im Tropenparadis. Ed. V. Ottmann. Dresden, Deutsche Buchwerkstatten, (1925), (4),227,(1)p., (col.) plates, contemp. cl.

= John Hagenbeck (1866-1940), half-brother of Carl Hagenbeck, was an exotic animal trader and plantation owner on Ceylon.

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